Scriptures

Abhidharma

Request: [ancient] detailed scholastic presentations of doctrinal material appearing in the Buddhist sutras.

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world...

"...He who loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him." -- 1 John 2:15

"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall"

Proverbs 16:18. Request: Things go really well for me then I become prideful and go off on my own, thinking I can do better without others. I either leave or tell them to leave, neglecting the fact that the reason I am doing well is because they are in my life.

Gospel of Nicodemus

Request: also known as the Acts of Pilate is an apocryphal gospel claimed to have been derived from an original Hebrew work written by Nicodemus, who appears in the Gospel of John as an associate of Jesus -- wikipedia

Tibetan Book of the Dead

The book is calibrated at 575 in TvF, but there's some bizarre stuff in there, i.e. Chapter 8, "Natural Liberation through Recognition of the Visual Indications and Signs of Death." Should we take it seriously?

"abstain from all appearance of evil"

Bible verse: 1 Thessalonians 5:22 (KJV)

Bhagavad Gita on repression

"Even a man of knowledge acts according to his own nature, for everyone follows the nature he has acquired from the three modes. What can repression accomplish?" -- Chapter 3:33, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada translation

John 3:3

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” -- ‭‭John‬ ‭3‬:‭3‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Chun Bu Kyung (scripture)

Priority request: an ancient 81-character text of Korean-Asian tradition, similar to a sutra in Buddhism. It is essentially a numerical representation of the laws of the cosmos and is therefore difficult to interpret literally -- ilchilee.com

Philippians 4:8-9

Lamsa translation

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. KJV

An-Nisa (4th chapter of the Koran)

"addresses concerns about women... inheritance, marriage laws, how to deal with children and orphans, legal practices, jihād, relations between Muslim communities and People of the Book, war, and the role of Jesus as a prophet, rather than the son of God as Christians claimed" -- wikipedia

"Every hair on one's head is numbered (by God)"

From Luke 12:7. The verse encourages people not to be afraid, as they are of more value than many sparrows and are worth more than many sparrows in God's sight -- biblegateway

Ezekiel’s vision of the Chariot

Ezekiel 1:4-28

"For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and he disciplines the son with whom he is pleased."

Request: Hebrews 12:6 (Lamsa). I would like to understand this in context of consciousness calibration level.